Pretty sure that the Rolling Stones has a whole song about where this "beef" is coming from.

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The US beef supply is squeezed because some big droughts from a couple of years ago forced ranchers to sell off a lot of their herds.

Now, they don't have the herds to supply the demand, and you can't just magick more cows into existence. Once the problem exists, it takes a bunch of time to grow calves into cows.

The problem is exacerbated by a dynamic where the current high prices encourage ranchers to sell their cattle instead of keeping them around to grow the herd.

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